 The Truth about Suffering
I once thought Buddhism would save me from suffering. That was before I started to grow older and wiser. And it isn’t so much the wisdom that changed my mind about the end of suffering as it is the aging. – Wes Nisker, “The Question” Click here to learn how you can receive a 30 minute Mindfulness Break in your home. |
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May you be free from suffering and the causes of suffering! All my best,
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Mini Mindfulness Break for April 30, 2019
 A Precious Death
Where there is no death, there are no risks, and life is utterly meaningless. Life is precious, and so death must be precious too. Our job is to figure out why. – Shozan Jack Haubner, “Consider the Seed” |
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May you be free from suffering and the causes of suffering! All my best,
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Mini Mindfulness Break for April 29, 2019
 My life is filthy with miracles, and yet droughts last as long as they last. The ice caps melt. Polar bears starve. Right now, that sucks. But maybe it’s more important to be driven into despair, humility, and open mind than to get my way in any given moment.
– Filthy With Miracles, Martha Beck’s Shiny Objects Blog |
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May you be free from suffering and the causes of suffering! All my best,
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Mini Mindfulness Break for April 28, 2019
 Give Yourself Space
What cultivating attention to detail introduces is spaciousness, space around thoughts and activities, that allows us to live a rich and satisfying life. – Darlene Cohen, “Pain Without Suffering” |
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May you be free from suffering and the causes of suffering! All my best,
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Mini Mindfulness Break for April 27, 2019
 Uncovering Love
Because a loving heart is the very nature of every human being, to cultivate love does not mean to fabricate something that is not already present. Rather, it means to identify and gradually remove the many obstacles that block access to our loving heart. – Beth Roth, “Family Dharma: A Bedtime Ritual” |
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May you be free from suffering and the causes of suffering! All my best,
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Mini Mindfulness Break for April 26, 2019
 Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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May you be free from suffering and the causes of suffering! All my best,
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Mini Mindfulness Break for April 25, 2019
 The Luminous Gap
Entering the awakened state of mind, even for a moment, is always preceded by an experience, however fleeting, of extreme contrast and conflict. Even on the highest and most subtle levels of attainment, negative and positive continue together side by side, until one makes the leap beyond them both. – Francesca Freemantle, “The Luminous Gap in Bardo” |
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May you be free from suffering and the causes of suffering! All my best,
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Mini Mindfulness Break for April 24, 2019
 Our Fearsome Friend
If we understand fear as an evolved survival mechanism, we gain some perspective and perhaps some release from our identification with the feeling. We might even arrive at a place where we can bow down to fear, seeing it as a friend who is looking out for our very life. – Wes Nisker, “It’s Only Natural” |
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May you be free from suffering and the causes of suffering! All my best,
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Mini Mindfulness Break for April 23, 2019
 Here’s the thing: we can’t save ourselves from fear by seeking safety, because safety always means there’s something to be safe from–in other words, something to fear. The way out of fear isn’t safety. It’s freedom.
– Martha Beck, Freedom From Fear |
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May you be free from suffering and the causes of suffering! All my best,
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Mini Mindfulness Break for April 22, 2019
 Death Is a Part of Living
Until you realize the fundamental fact that reality is really in the moment, you’re thinking about long-term goals–‘when I do this’ and ‘when I become that’–so you think, I don’t want to die, because then I won’t be able to do all these things. But if you’re living in the present, death becomes a part of living. – Jason Lewis, “An Interview with Jason Lewis” |
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May you be free from suffering and the causes of suffering! All my best,
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